How to dereference Mac OS X alias?

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I'm trying to scp a file with it's alias. How can I achieve this?

vartec · Answer 1 · 2011-03-01 15:25:37Z

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Have you tried scp with -E flag?

answered Mar 1 '11 at 15:03

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An alias is not the same as a symlink, and it will break with this method. – SvenW Mar 1 '11 at 15:07

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Eonil · Answer 2 · 2011-03-01 16:59:30Z

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I solved this by making symlinks instead of aliases.

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LaC · Answer 3 · 2011-03-11 16:28:05Z

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You could use the osascript command to run an AppleScript that dereferences the alias and returns the path to the original.

answered Mar 11 '11 at 16:28

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